Monday, February 18, 2008

Public Lecture: The Future of Post Secondary School in Quebec


Good evening everybody,

Wang, Xixi, Jarno and me attended a presentation on the increasing of the tuition fees in Quebec universities. Actually, it was not a lecture, it was a kind of debate, a chairman was asking four people from different organizations (McGill University, University of Montreal and the Ministry of Education - Quebec) about the reasons of the dramatically increasing in the tuition fees of the universities in Canada. It was held in Concordia University in the Hall Building, room H-110. it was by the Arts and Science Federation of Associations (ASFA). The number of audience was not as expected, about 30 to 40 students.

It was really a nice lecture (Debate), we learned a lot about the tuition fees increasing in the last few years and why these fees have been raised dramatically, especially for the international students. The only problem we faced that three of the four presenters were French and we had a hard time focusing in their speech, however they were very polite, accurate and they answered all the questions that have been discussed. In my point of view, I believe that increasing the tuition fees of the universities is a very important task in order to have more facilities and materials to be well educated students, but these increasing fees have to be regulated by the government in order to give high schools’ students the opportunity to attend universities.

We hope that attending the universities will be a right not a privilege...........


1 comment:

Helen said...

Three of the four presenters were French...you mean that they are French but use English to present,right?And do you got the picture that you show from your debate?Is it just a picture or a hand book that give you some main point about the debate?